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Some days ago I needed to change my automation tool written in C# as Windows application. The reason was that we use Dropbox now and all pages opened on another computer have a whole bunch of missing links due to different Dropbox folder locations. Updating links in Javascript is easy and if I do it from Indesign I use following script:  var alllinks = app.activeDocument.links; for (var i = 0; i < alllinks.length; i++) { var cur_link = alllinks[i]; { var m = cur_link.filePath.match(/.+Dropbox\\(.+)/); if (m) { try { cur_link.relink(File('W:\\' + m[1])); } catch (e) { } } } }  where W: is my Dropbox folder mapped as drive letter. But as I tried to implement the same logic in my application using COM access  var allLinks = Doc.Links; for (int i = 1; i <= allLinks.Count; i++) { Link l = allLinks[i]; if (l.Status == idLinkSta

Hello.. I'm back again ! 1.After exporting to an EPub from ID, I see two errors..Index Page entry not found : is missing: 2Index Page entry not found : is missing: 28and,In Calibre, the TOC shows a couple of empty rows after some of the TOC entries.to check,I exported the TOC from ID as HTML in case I could see anything but it looks okay, not showing any empty rows that I can see.--------------2.I also notice in Calibre a few 'The link is empty'  errors like this..OEBPS/BOOK_Almost_a_Book.xhtml (line: 35 column: 0)This link is empty. This is almost always a mistake. Either fill in the link destination or remove the link tag.and lastly, 3.I get many of these..OEBPS/css/idGeneratedStyles.css (line: 357 column: 13)Unexpected missing generic font family (font-family-no-missing-generic-family-keyword). When I check is ee it references  'the fonts Alex Brush' and 'Times New Roman' font which I use throughout the book. So even after trying to find the problems an

It seems like you can't tell the difference in general.Once I found the difference, it seems that one contains boundaries while the other only contains in-bounds.I can't find an obvious example.

I find that I pretty much never use the LAB color picker and would prefer it to be HSB/HSV all the time. Is there a way to change this in preferences? 

Bonjour à toute la communauté, je rencontre un petit problème depuis le téléchargement des dernières versions d'InDesign. Si je laisse un document ouvert sans aucune intervention dessus pendant un certain temps, lorsque je retourne sur InDesign, à la place de document je me retrouve avec une page totalement rose… La solution que j'ai trouvée est de fermer le document et le réouvrir ! Par contre je ne sais pas d'où vient le problème ? Y a t'il d'autres membres qui auraient recontré ce problème ? je suis sur un MacBook Pro M1, 16 Mo/500 Go, système Sequoia 15.1.1 et Indesign 20.3.1.73.Merci de votre retour, cordialement, bonne soirée

Hi, I want to add new blank pages with text frames that thread through the whole document so that I can type into the document directly and have the text continue. I know about holding shift to auto-flow when placing a document; that is not what I want to do. I would just like to know if there is a way to not have to manually thread all the frames. Thanks in advance!

why if my document is on text reflow is it not reflowing when adding pages??se video

Hallo zusammen,ich nutze ein MacBook Air (Anfang 2015) mit macOS Monterey. Die aktuelle InDesign-Version ist nicht mehr kompatibel mit meinem System, und in der Creative Cloud App wird mir keine ältere Version zum Download angeboten.Ich suche daher dringend eine Möglichkeit, InDesign 18.5 oder 17.x zu installieren.Mein Abo ist aktiv, und die Creative Cloud App ist auf dem neuesten Stand. Der Chat-Support konnte mir bisher leider nicht weiterhelfen.Hat jemand einen direkten Download-Link oder einen Tipp, wie ich an eine ältere Version komme?Vielen Dank im Voraus!

why is the spellcheck not working if it's on engilish language?? 

why are my pages suddenly not adding as separate spreads??

By a mistake a lenghty document has been based on document paper "legal" instead of "a4". Is there a way to change the paper size without changing the content (apart from a necessary fine tuning of the layout). Thansk in advance Knud, Copenhagen

why is this text box disaappering when I move it to the next page? 

Can anyone tell me if these margins are too much to use for a cookbook?

Hi, Dear Friends!Why is the KB SC not working for my paragraph style?It would seem that there is no conflict, and even if there was I would like mine to override that of ID. How can I get this to work?Thank you, and have a good day!Susan Flamingo

I make contact sheets of photographs regulary. Doing them in Indesign is preferred method as they sometimes get added to other layouts so need to be very editable. The Photoshop output is just kind of a pain since it is one big jpg file.  I discovered the script ImageCatalog in the scripts folder and it does a great job of automating this process including editable file names under the images. Strangely the images are not in alphabetical order. Any one know why this would be? I dont see anything in the dialouge box. This almost negates the automation as now I have to drag everyting into alpha order. Mulitple page contact sheets become really become a pain. Maybe there is another way to do automated editable contact sheets?  

Hi,I still use InDesign CS6, and I have a question regarding starting new documents. I have sometimes been searching for a solution on Internet, but haven't succeeded.Sometimes when I create a new document and choose Landscape orientation, it is automatically saved as default, so that next time I want to create a new document, the Landscape orientation is chosen automatically. But next time, when I create a document in Portrait orientation, it is NOT saved as default. Why is that? How can I save/keep my preferred orientation as default?

I have been using ID2025 to publish a month;y newsletter, using a previous issue as a template. While preparing the upcoming issue, after deleting prior text, and attempting to add new text, I received an error/shutdown notice. Everytime I restart and open/recover the working document, ID shuts down. How to resolve.

Hi. Using ID 20.3.1 under the revered Windows 11.I'm surprised I have not run into this before... but there is always a first time.Each year, I revise a set of manuals composed as books (that is, I use a book file). Mostly these files stay the same; sometimes there is new material to be placed or text revisions. But mostly they stay the same. This year, I copied all the book files from 2024-manual-file<1-7>, put them into a new folder, and renamed each of them 2025-manual-file<1-7>. Thus, they correspond. I renamed the old art folder in the old location after copying it and, lo!  all the art references in the 2025 files looked to the NEW 2025 art file for their old familiar screen shots from yesteryear. Great. But the cross references in each of the transplanted book files STILL POINT TO THEIR OLD REFERENCES in the 2024 files. That is, "Title x" in 2025-manual-file-1 actually points to "Title x" in 2024-manual-file-1. These X-refs are "perfectly good." They p

Hey, do you know when the beta version of the new indesign will be available for testing?

Sample: Lin YiJuan Jane Pu LuShi Purus Regular expression: (.+? +\w+){1}\K.* I saw a tutorial where he did it in excel.He intercepted the last name. Can it be implemented in ID?Result:JanePurus 

When multiple parentheses are nested, are the groups also nested?This regular expression should only have $1$2. I tried it and it has $3. Isn't $3 empty, or is it an error?Sample file, I want to search all the numbers1. Main events 1.2 Time of occurrence March 25th 1.2.3. Operational steps Replace with :$3Found that $3 even exists? 

any way to get all these fractions to look right without using glyphs? 

I'm creating my first document. When I set it up I didn't understand what "Primary Text Frame" was so I didn't select it. Now I realize that I really want to use it but the option is greyed out. Is there a way to turn this on for an existing document?

I am looking for a function to avoir empty lines at the top of a new page - for long documents. As a writer, I want sometimes no space between paragraphs. Sometimes I want one extra space. Sometimes two...  I want to pause the reading, or signal some distancing between the two texts. A bit like in poetry. Probably this is also due to my rythmic habit from being a filmmaker. You want to insert silences. To force the reader to pause. What I would like is being able - whatever the spacing I chose after a paragraph - to avoid empty lines at the top of next page. Turning the page is enough of a distance, enough of a pause. Is there a function for this ? A way to adjust the workflow for this ?Thanks for your help.

Hi all, For a while, i've been learning Indesign.I'm struggling with my Indesign tabs while making a indent with a symbol.I would like the text to be indented like above, what is the correct way to do this? See image below: